In article <4joej2$a5t@Steinlager.tip.net> mats@plea.se (Mats Magnusson) writes:
> I ett brev frσn 28 Mar 96 skrev Frank Russell till :
>
> >> I`m trying to get my Amiga 4000/30 with a GVP HC+8 scsi controller to use
>
> >> the scsi devices (quad speed Scsi-2 cdrom, Exabyte 2 gig 4200c dat drive
> >> and Archive 2150S 150meg tape streamer) in my PC I built last June. In
> >> theory a mac pin out cable with a 25 pin D connector at one end and a
> >> micro D connector at the other end to connect to my Pc PCI NCR scsi card
> >> should work _as long_ as the GVP scsi card has a different SCSI ID than
> >> the PCI card. Now the PCI NCR scsi card is a cheapy one, but the GVP
> >> SCSI card has jumpers on it to change the id. Unfortunately, the jumpers
> >> don`t seem to work..Anyone know why???
>
> >> jbrown@athene.co.uk
>
> FR> The jumpers do not change the cards scsi id. As with ALL scsi
> FR> controllers that I have ever worked with, the controller card is fixed
> FR> with a scsi ID of 7.
Not all of them. 7 is always the default, but in many cases it can be changed.
Most Adaptec cards do it with a software driver rather than jumpers, which is
even tidier when it works.
>
> Well, the IVS Grandslam has jumpers to select scsi-id of the controller. And iv'e seen an old future domain scsi-controller for PC that was fixed to 6 if i don't remeber wrong, anyway it was fixed to something else than 7 for sure.
>
> I've been thinking about connecting the grandslam i have in my A4000 to the A590, and have a look at if it would be possible to write sana network drivers for it. I guess it isn't worth the effort atleast in my situation, but if there were drivers it wo